The Sun. — London, England, 1864-12-14 00:00:00

1' UN ALMANACK for 186 5. Full of Comic Engravings and Humorous Writings. Price Twopence. TRAPPED in a TREE, by Captain MAYNE REID: and other Tales, appear in the CHRISTMAS Double NUMBER of F UN, now ready. Price Twopence. OUR OWN CORE ESPONIIENT OUT OF SORTS—Lectures for Little Statesmen —How the Good Boy Tom Brown got into Difficulties, Sal, Ste., In "k UN" This Week. One Penny. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Last Night but Three previous to the commence encement of the Christmas Pantomime. ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE WEEK. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with ( 1 10.0 W WHO. Followed by, and on Friday, LA SONNAIIBULA. To-morrow (Thunday), and Saturday, FAUST. Conductor, Signor ARDITI. Doors open at Half-past Six, commence at Seven. Opera t Eight. Box Office c pen from Ten till Five. Private Boxes, from 10s. 6d. ; Stalls, is. ; Dress Circle, 58.; First Circle, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. 6i. ; Gallery, is. No charge for booking places. No fees to box-keepers. In preparation, a Grand Christmas Pantomime. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. (Opera Company, Limited.) Last Appearance but Two of Mr. Charles Adams. THIS EVENING (Wednesday), Dec. 14, the performances will commence with Weber's overture to Preciosa. After which, Verdi's opera, IL TROVATORE. Leonora, Mdlle. L. Martora e ; Inez, Mrs A. Cook; and Azucena, Madame Fanny Huddart; Count di Luna, Mr. A. i awrence ; Ferrando, Mr. A. Cook ; Ruiz, 51r. C. Lyall ; Gipsy, Mr. Melville ; and Manrico, Mr. Charles Adams. To conclude with the Third Act of MASAN lELLO. Conductor, Mr Alfred Mellon. The Incidental Divertissement will be supported by Mdlles. D ichateau and Boni anti. Commence at half-past 7 o'clock. Private boxes, from 10s. 6LI, upwards ; stalls, 7s. ; dress circle, 55. ; upper boxes, 4s. ; amphitheatre stalls, 3s. and 2s ; pit 2s. 6d. ; gallery, is. No charge for booking places. The box-office is open from 10 till 5. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY- LANE- Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, to commence with A YOUNG LAD FROM THE COLIN rRy. Messrs. G. Belmore, Fitzjames, and G. F. Neville; Misses Helen Howard, R. Leclercq, &c. After which, Shaksnere's Tragedy of M 4.CBETIL Mr. Phelps ; Messrs. Creswick, R. ltoxby, G, Belmore, Rayner, F. Neville, Edmund Phelps, J. Neville, Bartleman, &c. ; Misses Rebecca Isaacs, Emma Heywood, and Miss uelen Faucit. Doors open at ha f-past Six—Commence at Seven. T HEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.- Lessee. Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, MADEMOISELLE DE BELLE ISLE. Messrs. Howe, Farren, Gordon, Braid, &c. ; Mesdames t leatrice, Ange., &c. After which, NO SONG NO SUPPER. Messrs. Compton, Arth, r Clark, Weathersby, Sze,. ; Mesd in , Aa Keeley, Villiers, Moore, Lovell, ,t 3. And OUR MARY ANNE. To commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, BORN TO GOOD LUCK. I addy O'Hafferty, Mr. Dominick Murray. After which, THE STREETS OF LONDON. Messrs. Vining, J. W. Ray, D. Fi her, D. Murray, J. Nelson, H. Forrester. 11. Mellon ; Mrs. Henry Marston, Miss Emma Barnett, and Miss Fanny Gwynne. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the sole management of Mr. Fechter. THIS EVENING, at 8, BAY BLA.S. Messrs. Fechter, Ryder, Fitzpatrick, F. Charles, M`lntyre, Garden, Raymond, i►ollett, C itford, Moreland ; Misses Carlot a Lezlercq, H. Percy, and Mrs. Winstanley. Preceded, at 7, by MY WIFE'S OUT. Messrs. H. Widdi comb, F. Charles ; Misses H. Percy and E. ':,avenue. To cone tide with NIJRSEY CHICKWEED. Mr. H. "Viddicomb. Doors open at half-past 6 ; commence at 7. The Box-office open daily from Eleven till Five. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE WORKMEN OF PARIS. 11r. Benjamin Webster; Messrs. Billin;:ton, R. Phillips, Stuart, J. Clarke, Stephenson, Eburne, C. J. Smith; Mrs. Stirling, Miss Woolgar (Mrs. A. Mellon), Miss H. Simms. Mrs. Biliington, Mrs. H. Lewis, and Miss A. Seamen. To conclude with DOING BANTING. Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. Stephenson; Mrs. Lewis and Miss A. Beaman. Commence at 7. R OYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Manager, Mr. Benjamin Webster. EMINENT TALENT AND COMEDY DRAMA. Last Week but One of the present Management. THIS EVENING-, a new Musical Drama, entitled THE BARONET ABROAD AN') THE RUSTIC PRIMA L ONNA : Mr. Frank Matthe rs ; Miss Constance Roden. After which, at a quarter to Eight, a new and original Comedy Drama, in three acts, by J. Palgrave Simpson. enti tled SY BILLA ; or, STEP BY STEP. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews. To conclude with Mr. Maddison Morton's New Comedy Farce of WOODL OCK'S LITTLE GAME. Mr. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Frank Matthews. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress. Mrs. Swanborough. THIS EVENING. THE DAY AFIER THE WEDDING. 3lr. Be;ford, Miss Palm r. Alter which, SHORT AND SWEET. Mr. Parselle. Followed by, at Eight, MILKY WHITE. Messrs. Craven, Btoyle, James ; Mesdames Swanbor ,ugh and Mande7s. To conclude with MAZEI'PA. Mesdames Raynham, Simpson, .tc. COALS. —The LILLESHALL COMPANY'S COALS. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis'. 255. per ton. I Double ..21s. per ton. Top 245. „ Deep ....225. „ Nell screened and delivered within five miles of their De lpots, Westbourne Park-road, W., and 17, South Wh ar f, ddington, W., and Maiden-lane, N. Best Coke Terms cash. JOIIN SCOTT, sole L..zent. 11111 E THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," 1. Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, DMZ be had Every Evening of G. R. GLEN lE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. THE LATES f EDITION of " THE SUN" supplied, as soon as published every Evening by W. ALEXANDER (late BROOKS), Newspaper Agent, 21, Old Cavendisn- street, Oxford-street. iIIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. T Ina DAY.—Morning, 2d. 30m.—Afternoon, 2h. 54m. T , ,-w ORR OW.-M orning, 3h. 15m.—Afternoon, 3h. 35J1. eiT.Z 4 4 . ' 7 SITIL LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 14, 1864. We are just now on the eve of a new Parliament, and certainly no one, excepting possibly its own members, will be inclined to regret the decadence o' the present one. A general election is sufficiently rare to make it a matter of interest, and the excite ment of political warfare is carried into many re tired rural diztricts, and quiet country towns and villages, to most of whose inhabitants it is a matter of complete indifference wh ) holds the seals of office. Bat in the metropolis itself and in the lead. jag cities of the empire the position of parties is a matter of very vital interest, and the influence which a new Parliament may exercise on the Cabinet invests a general election with considerable importance. Just at this juncture, therefore, it is not uninteresting to inquire how our self-governed colonies pass through the same crisis in their in sti' utions, and how their constitutional laws, in some respects different from our own, work at such a juncture. If in our own quiet orderly routine world a general election produced a high degree of excitement and contention, we may naturally sup. pose that a young community would be still more moved and shaken by its operation. Yet according to the news from Victoria, however, the recent general election has produced scarcely any excites ment. The public have taken very little interest in the matter, and so great hex been the indifference manifested that in many places a second candi date could not be found. It is true that the triennial return of the elections, which is the rule throughout the colonies for a leovver House, renders its recurrence less noticeable or importen; ; but other influences have more to do with the unusual quietude. In the first place, there have been no popular questions under discus mien, no party cries or divisions on topics such as the land qeestien, which at once appeal to indivi dual interests, and arouse the pateiens of the Se condly, the great change which has been brought about in the manner of conducting elec tions in Victoria has not only restr - c'ed the number of candidates and of voters, but it has taken away their occupation from the mob orators and advene lurers who trade on popular excitement, and seek their own private ends by influencing the passions of the multitude. A bill was carried during the last session which considersbly altered the face of matter?, and its effects have been seen in the tran quillity and indifference visible at the late election. It is of course desirable that the populace should interest themselves in their own affairs, and the whole merit of parliamentary government is gone, if the indifference of the people prevent them from being fully and fairly represented, But Australia, like all new settlements, has hitherto had to guard rather against the opposite extreme, and therefore the change now_visible is to be accepted as an augury of better things. The riot and dis. turbance of a contested eleetion, undesir able and injurious enough in this country, is still worse in a young, untrained community, and, therefore, the Victorian Parliament very wisely provided against the occurrence of any violent dis turbance by a few simple regulations. Instead of a candidate having to go through no other form than getting himself proposed at the hustings, he is now obliged, before he is put in nomination, to deposit the sum of £5O, which is not returned to him un less he can secure one-fifth of the votes polled by the lowest candidate. All empty and factious op position is thus guarded against, and a system of " dunning" candidates, which was growing common, has been rendered impossible. There are no longer any hustings nominations; but a nomination paper, signed by ten qualified electors as well as by the candidate himself, is deposited with the returning officers, no speeches being allowed. This does not consort with our old English idea of an election ; but the plan has been found to work well in pre venting riot and disturbance. The electors, too, are put under restriction as well as the candidates. Before a man is allowed to exercise his right of voting—and manhood suffrage has long been the rule in Australia—he must have resided six months in the district for which he claims to vote, he must be able to write his name, and will have to pay a shilling for his electoral right, which is then issued to him. The writing of the name is a good applica tion of that educational teat which is every where so desirable, and nowhere more so than in a country like Australia, which has need to be well on its guard against the predominating influence of reck less democracy. The general feeling of the respect. able population is unquestionably in favour of constitutional government, and they are therefore wise to put some checks on the action of so mixed an assembly as their masses are composed of. The general effect of the election is expected to be decidedly in favour of the Government, which has promised a reform of the Upper House, a revi sion of the tariff, and a new land bill. Meanwhile, in the neighbouring colony of New South Wales the Governor has just opened the fifth session of the existing Parliament, addressing the members at some length on the condition and prospects of the colony. Two questions arc just now especially engaging the attention of the Australian colonies. There is the much-vexed question of transportation from the mother country, the other a local dispute between the several colonies as to the border cus toms duties: Sir JOHN YOUNG announced in his speech that a satisfactory arrangement had been come to between the Government of New South Wales and of South Australia for the collection of duties on goods arriving by way of the River Murray from South Australia for consumption in New South Wales. With the authorities of Victoria, however, no agreement had been made, and the question remains unsettled. The past year has been an nnfavourable one for New South Walee, owing to the severe floods which have inflicted serious damage, and the failure of the harvest. Under these circumstances the Governor warns the mem bers they will have to provide for a deficit. It is interesting to notice the progress of the colony in the various measures which he commends to their notice, such as railway extension, the improvement of the currency laws, the protcction and reforma. Lion of neglected children, the regulation of the volunteer force, and the prevention of the sale of diseased meat. All these questions bespeak a high state of civilisation, and show the kindred sympa. thies existing between the population of the mother country and their energetic kinsfolks in the Southern seas. There are few things more outrageous than kidnapping, and it seems strange that such tole- ration should have been exercised towards the constant recurrence of this infamous practice by the Federals. Constantly as the subject has been men tioned in one way or another, little heed is paid to it by the Government, and neither in words nor actions do they exhibit that contempt for the practice nor that righteous indignation against the perpetrators of it which we surely have a right to expect from those who are in a position to defend our rights and avenge our wrongs. It has over and over again been cited by Ministers and the members of their immediate following that all that has been done against the Confede derates in the matter of engaging vessels and so forth, was an unavoidable duty which must not be shirked. The interests of nations required the due observance of the leis between countries, and no infringement, direct or indirect, could be sanc. tioned. We hear a great deal of the necessities of the case as regards the Government of Washington, but it appears to escape the observation of those zealous defenders of transatlantic claims, that an• other country is wholly left out cf the question in regard to the enforcement of the rules and regula• dons of neutrals and belligerents; and that country is no other than England. From first to last our interests have been sacrificed, our claims neglected, our honour tarnished by the course which theAtne rican war has taken. Of course, properly managed, neither a recognition of the South nor a strict nen• trality need have occasioned such misfortunes ; but it is the trifling manner in which the whole affair has been arranged, Hesitation is always injurious to the interests of individuals, but in the case of nations it is fatal to honour and prosperity. It is of no use to disguise the fact, that our present Go• vernment are secretly on the side of the Federals; for various reasons they are led that way, and the influence of the Manchester school of politicians has exercised a most deleterious effect upon their councils in this, as in other affairs, vital to the interests and reputation :of the country. Had Earl RUSSELL at first boldly spoken out and contrived to let the Federals know that any unfair acts practised upon British subjects would call down upon them the wrath of the country, how different would things have been ? When any one ventures to propose that a decided step like this should be taken, they are always met with the assertion that care must be taken to prevent the rupture of our friendly relations with foreign Powers, and that above all things we must avoid doing or saying anything that can be construed into making a casus belle of an affair, in case of a non-compliance with our demands being resolved upon. Tais is a glaring error to make in the carrying on of administration, and will assuredly always prove inimical to the preservation of peace in its truest sense, which must signify the will and ability to protect one's honour. A case has recently been reported which only serves to corroborate former statements of a similar kind, but which is nevertheless meat irritating to peruse, and leads one to reflect sadly that there has been great and grievous mismanagement somew here, for such things to come to peas concerning a British subject, and no notice to be taken of his wro- ge. A sailor has returned to Gloucester, his native place, mutilated and disabled for life, through wounds contracted in the Federal service, into which he was entrapped to enter by the most insidious and scandalous means, He was desirous of returning to England, and a man, appearing like a sea-captain, offered to get him an engagement on board a ship bound for this country. The usual course was pursued ; the unfortunate sailor was stupified, and when he awoke to his senses he was in a hut surrounded by soldiers. Remonstrances proved, of course, unavailing; he was declared to be duly enlisted, and compelled to serve in the ranks of the Federal army. Here he received several wounds, and was at last allowed a few weeks furlough. He took advantage of this liberty to get on board a ship bound for Cadiz, and from thence he came to London, and has since reached Gloucester, " upon the very day on which his name would be called on the muster-roll of his regiment." Were it not for his wounds, he is far better off than hundreds of others who have shared his fate. They will be compelled to remain in their unwelcome service until the close of the pro tracted war, unless they fill foreign graves, after having expended their strength and wasted their health in a cause for which they have no interest to serve, and for a country which has no claim on them. Mr. COBDEN was very eager and eloquent abuut the " sublime spectacle" of re-electing President LINCOLN ; we wonder if he thinks it a sublime thing for Englishmen to be forced to take a part in the glorious war which is to emancipate the negroes. It is rather inconsistent that' force should be employed to procure the services of the troops who are to achieve so wonderful a boon for humanity. It was bad enough to be told to rest and be thankful while Denmark was ruined and our honour compromised, but it is too much to be told to admire the strict neutrality of a course of policy which creates unparalleled misery on a part of our popula tion at home, and interferes with the liberties of our subjects abroad, thus heaping affront on affront, and adding insult to injury. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE NOVA SCOTIAN. (Via Greencastle.) NEW YORK, DEC. 2 (Evening). General Schofield reports that on the 30th ult. he repulsed a heavy and persistent attack on Frank lin by two corps of Hood's army. The engage ment Lasted from the afternoon till after dark. Hood was repulsed at all points, with a loss of probably 5,000 to 6,000 men. The Federal loss was one fourth of that number. 1,000 Confederate pri soners were captured. On the night of the 30th Schofield retired from Franklin, and formed a line of battle three miles south of Nashville. On the morning of the Ist inst. Hood's cavalry crossed the river above Franklin, closely following the Federals towards Nashville. Heavy skirmishing and a general engagement was expected. Reinforcements were arriving at Nashville, and the troops and Government employees were under arms in the for tifications and trenches. Unofficial accounts represent that in the battle of the 30th tilt., in the first charge of Hooci's troops, the Federals were driven back, but rallied and counterr•charged the Confederates who had crossed over the Federal lines. The Federals then swung round on the Confederate flank and drove them in cenfusion. Some despatches estimate the Confede• rate loss at 3,000 men. Grant reports that tho _Richmond Examiner of yesterday admits that Sherman had crossed the Oconneo river, and would succeed in reaching the sea coast. Richmond papers of the 29th ult, assert that it was well known in Richmond for several days that Sherman was bafiLd in his attempts to penetrate Georgia. He neither captured Macon nor threat ened Augusta, since during the last week he was unable to advance 10 miles, being harassed on his flank and rear and manfully resisted in front, and forced to avoid all important towns. Augusta papers of the 26th reiterate that Sher man had been repulsed in crossing the Oconnee river. Beauregard and Johnston were in Augusta on the 23d. Bragg has left Wilmington for Augusta with a large force. A heavy Confederate force is concentrating from all quarters at Augusts. It is reported that Burnside has sailed from Fort Monroe with 20,000 men to meet Sherman. General Grant despatched Gregg's cavalry on a reconnaissance to ascertain if Lee was sending troops south. Gregg captured and destroyed Stoney Creek station and a quantity of stores, and afterwards retreated, followed by the Confederates towards the Federal camp. He obtained no infor. mation of troops passing southward. Resolutions have been submitted in the Confede• rate Congress to the tffect that the South would, if shortly recognised by the North, unite with the North in maintaining the Monroe doctrine. If recognition was delayed,the South would abandon the Monroe doctrine in exchange for material ad.e vantages for herself. The steamer North Star, from Aspinwall, with 1,000,000 doll, in specie, has beon long overdue here. The China has arrived out. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, DEC. 2 (Evening). Money easy. Gold, 231. Exchange on London, 262; do. Paris, 2 81 to 2 131. Stocks doll. New York Centrals, 120; Illinois, 1291 ; Erie, 93: ; 5-20 Bonds, 107 i. NEW YORK, DEC. 3. There is no later war news. Hult _has declined the Attorney-Generalship. General Washburne has promulgated an order requiring a tax of a half per cent. per month to be levied and collected on all persons at Memphis, who are in anyway exempt from military duty and hold trade permits. The funds thus raised are to be devoted to defraying the expenses of the militia and paying for a permanent guard for each regi ment. The districts of West Tennessee and Vicksburg have been placed under the command of General Dana with headquarters at Vicksburg. Ile has ordered the traders in Vicksburg and Natchcz to ship north all the cloths and cotton cards remain - log in their hands under pain of confiscation. An attempt to escape was made by 1,300 Fede• rals at S , Aisbury, North Carolina, but was frus, trated. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Geld, 229. Flour, sc. to 10c. lower, Wheat, lc. lower. Sales unimportant. Cora declining. Pros vision declining. Telegraphic News Association. (Per Nova Scotian via Greencastle.) NEW Yoxx, Dec 3. A battle took place on Wedne.tday, at Franklin, between a portion of Thomas and Hood's armies. The Confede rates drove the Federate back and scaled, their works, cap- ITE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEIVIBEII 14, 1864. turing guns and prisoners. The Federals were subse quently reinforced, and recovered their ground, but evacuated the position, however, the same night, and re tired on Nashville, a distance of thirty miles. The Confe derates crossed Harpeth River next morning at the fords near Franklin, and were confronting Thomas yesterday. A great battle was believed imminent, and brisk skirmishing going on. General Wierts Adams and Pat Cleburne are reported among the Confederate killed at Frarklin. Nothing reliable is known of the precise loss on either side in that battle, the published accounts being simply rumour. The Federate have evacuated Columbia, removing their wounded. to Nashville, where great excitement prevails. It is rumoured that Sherman's main army crossed Oconee River and are now en rotip for the seacoast, leaving Au gusta behind. His advanced cavalry endeavoured to open communication with Beaufort, but were defeated and part captured. Larnbton , s cavalry from Virginia has arrived at Augusta. Bragg left Wilmington last week with several thousand troops for same point. Wheeler has 10,000 cavalry on Sherman's flank. Several hundred stragglers have arrived at Augusta as prisoners. The President of Georgia Senate is acting ex officio Governor in the eastern part of the State. A. reconnoitring expedition from Grant's army captured and burnt the depot at Stoney Point. The Message from Governor Vance, North Carolina, opposes separate State action on the peace question. James Speed, Kentucky, is appointed Attorney-General, vice Holt, declined. A despatch from Nashville of the 2d states that the army has fallen back within the lines of the city. The Confederates are reported about three miles distant. A despatch from Richmond, of the Ist, states that one o Sherman's columns defeated the Confederates near Grins woldsville last week. The army is since reported to have gained forces, _ _ _ DEC. 3 (Evening). Judge Holt, of Kentu 'ky (appointed Attorney-General), reports that the Confederate garrison at Wilmington has been sent to Georgia. The If orld says the Federal armies and fleets are in motion, and the next two weeks promise to be the most eventful of the war. Bonds are now required of shippers of goods from New York to Nassau. General Thomas has evacuated Shelbyville, Kentucky. The :report that Pryor hal announced the capture of Macon, Milledgeville, and Augusta are unfounded. DAhlgreen and Foster are said to be co-operating with Sherman. Thirteen thousand Federal prisoners attempted to escape from Salisbury, North Carolina, but failed, Confederate cavalry threaten the railway between Nashville and Chattanooga. Grant is preparing another heavy move ment against Richmond. A Federal expedition into. Lower Louisiana captured 200 prisoners, and 3 guns. Magruder's forces are again re ported to be crossing the Mississippi to join Hood. The registration of the Southern refugees in New York already shows a falling of in their numbers. The Florida had still her guns on board when she went down. The Georgian Legislature, before adjourning, passed roe solutions expressing unshaken confidence in the Govern ment at Richmond. The Treasury has concluded a loan of 20 million 6.20 nds at 105. Advices from Mexico announce much suffering from want of food, and complaints on account of the increased taxation. The revolution in -Venezuela is over. Advices from San Domingo report that successes have been gained by the native forces over the Spanish troops. MEXICO. Advices from Mexico, published in the New York papers, state that on the 13th nit. the French troops at Mazathan, and took possession of the to wn, which had been evacuated on the pre vious night. Alvarez had .defeated the Imperial forces, and was marching on Acaputco. TURKEY. INTERNATIONAL CONTROL OF THE DANUBE. CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. 13. The Porte has accepted the proposition, previ ously refused, for the appointment of a commission by the great Powers to place the police of the Danube under international control. PORTUGAL, PARIS, DEC. 14. A telegram has been received here from Lisbon, dated 12th inst., announcing that the Minister of Marine had resigned. It was also asserted that a similar step had teen taken by the Minister of Public Works. FRANCE, PARIS, DEC. 14. Toe 211o3:iteur of this morning publishes the treaty of commerce concluded between France and S zerland. An Imperial decree orders that from the Ist of January next the transfer dues imposed by the law of 1857 on foreign companies shall be levied upon half the capital represented by shares, and upon the whole amount of obligations. Engli s h C onso l s arr i ved has produced no up ward movement in this mark e t, which, on the con trary,wißtholußasdEv,aDnceeo: b l u 3 t .— th T a h t e fact Threes, for the Ac coun t, at 927 f. 50c. The n ilie r r ather animated, and Rarleilmw oa h wy a s lightly i a6 g r6 h k f t e. l ,t y a r nh e da e s e dmbe been eb . many of the lines show an improvement. The mar ket improved towards the close, and l e ft off as fol lows : 41 per Cents .. 93 50 Do. end month.... 3 per Cents Do. end month 66 20 Credit Mobilier 938 75 Co, end month 9lO Bank Shares 3595 Credit koncier 1215 Roman — Italian Loan 65 65 D. end month 65 85 Ditto Threes .. New Mexican .... 50 50 Russian Austrian Spanish Threes — Rome Debt Deferred weirs. BAIL' Cash. Account. Orleans Northern 995 .. 996 25 Lyons and Medit/rranoan 875 • 877 50 Southern • 6 82 50 583 75 Western - 515 Eastern 2 50 Austrian Sardinian 3lB 75 .. 317 60 440 ▪ 440 Lombard .............• 506 25 .. 508 75 North of Spain ........ 372 50 .. 372 60 Saragossa .............. 437 50 .. 440 Ditto to Barcelona 192 50 MARZETS—TIds Day MARX-LANE. Fresh up to our market to-day the arrivals of home grown wheat were very moderate, produce was affect e d b y the prevailing damp weather. The sale, however, w as slow, even for dry produce, at about Monday's currency. Damp and the condition of the parcels were very difficult of sale. There was a good suPPly of foreign wheat on the stands. Generally speaking the trade ruled quiet. yet no change took place in prices c ompared with Monday. Floating cargoes o f grain moved off slowly, at late rates. There was a go o d supply of barley on the stands. Good and fine malti ng parcels were in slow request, at about previous rates ; otherwise the trade was dull, and the business done was at low prices. Malt changed hands slowly, at about previous quotations. Oita were in fair average supply, and the trade ruled firm, at full currencies, Beau met a sluw sale, at late rates tenFdoerticpye.as the traie was dull, and prices had a drooping Flour moved Off 6 lowly, at late rato3. ARRIVALS THIS V7EX. Wheat. Barley, Nair.. Oats. Flour. English 1,610 2,820 2,480 360 1,420 Irish Foreign 5,920 7,250 34,510 50 As BOROUGH HOP. The supply of hops on sale is very moderate, but tho trade is by no means active, Prices, however. rule very firm. WIIITECHAPEL. Moderate supplies oiraeatareon sale, and the trade rules firm, et the aunexe.l prices : Beef, from 36 to 4s 8d ; mutton, 3s 8d to 5s Od ; veal, 3s 10d to 4e 10d ; and pork, 3s 8d to 514 Od per 81be by the CUM°, LITERATURE, Eliza Cook's New Poems. New Echoes, and other Poems. By Eiizi Cook. One vol. pp. 254. Routledge, Warne, and Rout. ledge. It is in obedience to a delightful custom among our Royal Academicians—a custom (even within the view of the general public) most " honoured in the observance''—that immediately upon the elec tion of each Associate to that " blue ribbon" of Art, the dignity of RA., he is expected, forthwith, to give some very signal and especial taste of his quality in the form of what is called his Diploma Picture. Having said which—we would here add, at once, that, precisely as we are accustomed to turn to the Diploma Picture of a Royal Academician Elect, we have just now turned to the examination of this new volume of Poems by Eliza Cook—a volume coming to us as refreshingly as might a bunch of violets on the eve of Christmas. It is only yesterday, as one may say, that our authoress received, from, the nation, the most practical, if not the highest evidence of her popularity as a Na" tional Song-veriter, During many years past— although. her own life is still but in its prime —her simple, and heart-born, and many of them emi nently beautiful effusions have been " beloved as fable and believed as truth" far and wide among our 'English homesteads. But, while her repute ticra has thus undoubtedly become extended by thee force of its own spontaneous expansion or de• velopment, its ultimate recognition by the " powers that be" has only been signalised, it will be remem. bored, but very recently. Here in England, as the world knows, it is not our habit to crown a sonneteer in the Capitol. With us the sterling quality of a precious metal is attested by the hall mark. It is as if we weighed genius by avoirdupois. However the fact thus specified may chance to be regarded—such at any rate, in these matters, has long come to be our national habitude. According to which same custom of oars, it has now duly come to pass during this present year that the sterling gold of Eliza Cook's poetry has at length received, as we have already expressed it, the na tional hall mark. Proffered to her in her high capacity as one of the People's Songwriters, she is henceforth authorised to receive annually from the coffers of the nation, through the hand of the P,: ime Minister, one of those honourable pension '",a from the Crown and Country, which (thes,;, pensions, we mean), when rightly regarderl, ought to be looked upon far more in the laght of a tribute than in the light of a I , Argesse. And now, before the twelvemonth rioses, as if in return for this thrice welcome 'evidence towards her of national aPPrecia;:ton, our authoress, precisely as the R. A. Elect . mi g ht submit to coueideration his Diploma Picture, places before us another and, in truth, a very signal taste of her quality as a Poet of the People, as a National Song-writer, in these "New Echoes' of hers—Echoes followed by upwards of Seventy " Other Poem' of a singularly miscel laneous character. So that, really and truly, it might be said in regard to this particular one amongst the last batch of Pensions, that—even test ing its value by its consequences—it has already turned out for the nation a very excellent invest. meat I Through it, we have even, it might be said, got(by wonderfully quick returns)our money's worth. Scanning the volume, howbeit, purely as a work of art—the intrinsic value of which (that is, of a verit able work of art) it must at all times be almost impossible, if, indeed, it be not absolutely impos. sible, accurately to appraise —we are fain to drop, at once and for ever, these, for the moment, our wisiesasically chosen money-market metaphors— examining the book and its contents for such pre cisely as they are—as New Echoes from the lyre of Eliza Cook : a lyre strung as it were by her very heartstrings. The opening poem among all these five-and-seventy—the poem which gives its distinc tive title to the volume—" New Echoes" to wit—a poem extending over some thirtyefour pages, may be described as an amplification of what we are disposed to regard as the most famous first line of a first poem that ever was written I Meaning, thereby, the initial line of John Keats's maiden work " Endymion." A line enunciating a truth, of the veracity of which that line itself is its own most striking attestation! Sang young Keats, in that, the first and most world-famous among all his lovely versa— " A thing of beauty is a joy for ever"— the stripling author of " Eadymion," adding by way of enforcement to the exquisite thought therein er.pressed— "Its loveliness increases—it will never Pass into nothingness." Echoing this thought of John Keats, Eliza Cook herein expatiates upon it with delightful gusto—first of all oddly, whimsically, vivaciously—afterwards with a most tender and pensive appreciation of it in all its subtler aspects. Playing with it, as one may say, as a fountain might play with a roseate fruit or a blooming flower—the radiant thought of Keats being here kept dancing upon the " jet" of her capricious verse, as a rose or an orange might above the spray of a fountain, there and then " shaking its loosened silver in the sun 1" Of her own peculiar quail fiCations as a poetess, it may be observed, that Eliza Cook has a sense as accurate as ever Horace had of his. " Have I not struggled," she asks, - to be humbly just, And, like the glowworm gild my path of dust ? Have I not sought, with strong impassioned zeal, To 'nava a few enduring thoughts behind, That unborn ones may read; and, reading, feel To be the lifc-sparks of an earnest mind ?" Throughout the book, moreover, there are evidences that —true to her kind—if our authoress has intensely sung, she hos also intensely suffered. Shelley's phrase —we all remember those pathetic words of his, in reference to the whole race of poets, from the epic writer to the sonnetteer—Shelley's phrase runs thus affectingly— " They learn in suffering what they teach in song I" And, certainly—if we are to judge from her own casually indicated, from her own purely incidental references to her individual expe riences—our authoress may be said, in bitterest truth, to have graduated with high honours while passing through the Academy of Tribulation. One while she blurts out to us the confession— ic I have encountered pain and trial, Griefs, disappointments, anguish, doubts and fears ; Fate Las poured out on me her chastening vial, Melting my choicest pearls in acrid tears." At another her pathetic self-revelations come to us yet more tearfully where she laments— " No mot a can my footsteps wander Through woodlands loved and dear ; • I gaze on the hill-tops yonder Through the mist of a hopeless tear. My spirit is worn and weary With waitit:g for health and rest; My long, long night is dreary, And my summer day unblest : My suffering darkens the moonlight, My anguish embitters the balm, My loneliness weeps in the moonlight, And sighs in the evening calm. Oh, Suffering's mournful story Must be wofully long and true, When it finds me noting God's glory, But not as I used to do." Even, where she is speaking apparently of another, it is herself, only too manifestly, that she has within her ken ; as, for example, where she writes in her " Sorrowful Summer Stanzas"— " I know a Soul whose golden bowl Is filled, like the Year, with Life's rich dower, But Suffering weaves her shadowing leaves, And blights the prime of its fruit and flower." Among all these mournful introspective meditations the most plaintive, beyond all manner of question, Lowev;:r ; is the one entitled, suggestively, " Lines:in the Twilight.'' 100 long to admit of its being trans. ferred here in its entirety to oar columns, it would be an injustice to mar the beauty of it as a whole by any mere fragmentary quotation. Commending it to the readers perusal, th,:refore, we would at once add that our authoress has at least her consolations. Ras she not ? Let her own exquisite celebration of " Castle Lea"—to our mind one of the most charming pieces in:the whole collection —answer : and answer (so far as the sympathy of Friendship can enable it to do so) quite conclusively. Spoil.. taneously, almost, one might say, carelessly, to a certain extent unpremeditatedly, though she (sings—for those who have long learned to love her singing—these " woodnoies wild" hardly ever even by a misplaced epithet) do we find her accent faltering into momentary error or dissonance. Once in a way, she may talk about (p. 153) dissecting the thunder, or at another instant, in the midst of a battle song (p. 158), bid a ball show its teethe—but —What heart-stirring War Songs can she not sing whensoever she lists! Ex. gr., one single stanz.► from her Tyr!ce in, " Stand to your Guns!" Though we launch no defiance, and offer no wrong; Red coats and blue jackets shall be at their posts; And the light of bold hearts—steady, vivid, and strong, Shall keep Liberty's Watchfire alive on our coasts. Let the Rulers that dwell in the East or the South Come with friendly saluting, and kindly we'll meet; But we'll ()hew that Britannia has truth in her mouth; In our death-scorning " Guards" and our staunch " Chan nel Fleet," Lot us cherish our bulldog while petting our dove ; And be ready for storms 'neath the brightest of suns : With a cheer for our white cliffs, our homes, and our love; And a spirit determines to " Stand to our Guns I" Here, however, is a Wassong and a Peace-song all iu one—a Ndtional song worthy of having inscribed above it, as its motto, either Si vis pacem para bellum, or Senzper paratecs .patriotic effusion, not unworthy of the Poetess who has already given to her native land the noble song of " The Englishman" : HURRAH I FOR OUR RIFLEMEN I Hurrah for our Riflemen I —Men of the Land I Who have sprung with a brave-hearted yearning; Not willing nor eager to kindle War's brand, But to guard what that brand might set burning. They have limbs for a march ; they have fronts for a blow, Show them laurels and see bow they'll win them; They have hands for a trigger and eyes for a toe-- That will prove the true Briton is in them. Then here's to the Grey, and the Green and the Blue, Never heed in what colour you find them, But be sure they'll be dyed a blood-red through and through, Ere the chain of a Despot shall bind them, Let them come from the plough. from the loow, and the forge, Let their bugles ring louder and louder, Let the dark city street, and the deep forest gorge, Prove that Labour makes Valour the prouder. Let them dwell in sweet Peace, till a moment may come When the shot of an enemy rattle, And the spirits that clung the most fondly to home Will be first to rush forth in the battle. Then here's to the Grey, and the Green, and the Blue, Never heed in what colour you find them, But. be sure they'll be dyed a blood-red through and through, Ere the chain of a Despot shall bind them. Intensely patriotic though she is, however, by nature, she has especial reason for asserting as she does here, at page 105— " And my patriot-love and my patriot-song To the children of Labour will ever belong.' , With them it is, among ell her countrymen, that her large heart goes to the full. To them it is that her poetic sympathy id accorded unstintingly. She lingers with delight, it _is true, among the beauties of nature. She can sing of flowers.— " Oh I Sewers, come always round us in your bloom, apostrophising them, exquisitely, ia the same breath as— " The daintiest weaving in God's marvellous loom I" She can exclaim with an exultation of delight when she sees— " . . . The lime tree flinging Its delicate green arms out, The fragrant jasmine clinging, And the woodbine running about." But,while her heart stirs within her at the infinitely beautiful sights and sounds, the lavishly abounding graces and charms of Nature—it seems to go cut from her into her verse, when it is Human Nature that appeals to her poetic sympathies, in the guise of the lowly and the toil-worn. Humanity in any shape appeals potentially to her comprehensive susceptibilities, but most po tentially of all, in that —in the form, that is, of the very lowly and the very toil-worn. In behalf of the fallen and the griefastricken her tender voice is ever raised upon occasion with an earnest solicitude. She say° herseif—and, judging from her past and present poetry she says it with full reason— " I have not looked upon my erring brothers As though I were of better stuff than they. I have not learned to note foul spots in others, Deeming my heart all crystal—theirs all clay." And it may be said, too, that any fellow-creature, however lowly, becomes, in manner, sublimated by her sympathies—embalmed in her verse (to borrow, here, by way of illustration, one of her own loveliest couplets)— " Like the poor insect—worthless, dead and dull, Till Memory's amber makes it beautiful." Still as of old, intermingled with all the pathetic beauties of her muse, Rizl Cook's verse abounds at intervals with touches of the subtlest humour, of the most innocent and exhilarating vivacity. Note in evidence of this—hardly so much a quaint quatrain like that in which she pencils old Gaffer Gray, pencils him in his complete individuality—with the whole idioeyncraoy as it were, of that senile villager brought before us at a breath—instantaneously— " With a forehead made of wrinkles, Carved in crosses, cranks and crinkles, And a voice so thin and mumbling That his glee might pass for grumbling." Hardly so much, we would say is her sense of humour evidenced even bysuch a comical silhouette as that —as, let us say, by her yet additional triumphs of art, here, as a dog-painter (in words) quite as inimi table as are (in pigments) either Mademoiselle Rosa Bon hear or Sir Edwin Landseer, Allusion being thus made not so much to her Lines addressed " To Brun"—though those are admirable—particularly in the serio-comic " refrain"— " 'Tis pleasant to h:ar the wise ones utter The worth of your power and pace ; But why did you swallow that pound of butter, 800 OF AN ANCIENT RACE I " —as to the drollest effusion in the whole book, the one having a sort of ae odd kind of a half-pun in its very title, to wit, the " aiggrel Dill)" about —whom does the reader think ? DEARDLEUM KEDLUM I " My one grain of sense was oft deemed to be lost In a bushel of chaff from Bedlam, When the creature came nigh that I used to accost With the greeting of `Deardleum Kedlum " But somehow it never came into my head To say Kenneth' —the name he was christened— He was always styled Kenny,► or Keddle,' or Ked,' And he seemed to love each while he listened. " One called him 'Kentucky,' another I Kenmuir,' So others had some touch of Bedlam, But the fondest of all that kind voices let fall Was liquid and musical Kedlum.'" And so on, throughout the whole of this delightful piece of gentle-hearted comicality —one that, relat ing as it does "only to a dog," yet lends an illus tration in its w.iy to one of Eliza Cook's stanzas, occurring yet later on in the volume now under notice, in her poem on the " Germs of Greatness,'' where she says, and who is there who will not add, How truthfully I— " The Poet-chant may be a thing Of lightsome tone and word, But a living soma' may dwell in the string That shall waken and warn as its echoes fling, Till untold hearts are stirred.'' As its echoes fling—Yes, lot us say it, in brief, as these same " NEW ECHOES" of her own. Echoes that will long reverberate through many a scattered croft and homestead of old England, Echoes that will often vibrate in the hearts of those who in the intervals of labour, may come to nestle there under the thatch! SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day. . LONDON, Dec. 111.—Wind this day at noon —South- Easterly; moderato brecz9, aied cloudy weather, with a slight fog. QUEENSTOWN, Dec. 12.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Ne vada, from Callao—Balclutha, hum Cuba—Kent, from Richibucto. NEWPORT, Dec. 13.--Wind S.W.—Arrived—Pearl, from Amsterdam for Jamaica. ti ailed---'sparkling Dew, for Peruatoluca. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH ) - GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning, Arrived, Dee. 13—Anna G.sino, • from Stockholm— Elizabeth Ann, from Dort—Volunteer, from Hamburg— Celeste, from Kranville—Martha, from Cronstadt—Loutaa, from Bilboa. DEAL, Wednesday Morning. Passed, Dec. la—Skimmer of the Seas, for Batavia— Atlas, for Malta—Verc. fur Jamaioa—Ziba, for Moreton Bay—all from London. Sailed —The outward bound to the west, and the Ber mondsey for London, to stop a leak. Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. T Market quiet, but steady. S, - .lcs, about 7,000 XII Oln rt :,....\-- ,OUIEn _ HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, Dec. 13. The Queen, accompanied by her Royal Highness Princess Louise, and attended by the Hon. Emily Cathcart, walked and drove in the grounds this morning. Her Royal Highness Princess Helena rode in the Home Park, and Princess Beatrice went ou t walking. Her Royal Highness Princess Louise, atterdid by the Hon. Florence 6.symour, drove out in the afternoon. The Crown Prince and Crown Princess ° Prussia. Their Royal Hi g h nesses th e C ro wn Prince a v d d Crown Princess o f P russ i a , w h o have been r eal . r : in g in Switzerland f or some ti me , ar rived I Berne on Thursday last on th e ir return to Ger. many, Their royal highnesses stayed one night at g the Bernerhof, and th en p rocee d e d to Carl srl . lh ' ... on a visit to the Gra n d D u k e an d Grand Du chess of Baden. They arrived at Carlsruhe on Saturd a l afternoon. The Duke and Duchess of Manchester ha arrived in Paris from England, on their way to Ni' 3 e' The Earl and Countess of Leicester will esl ' - : tain a succesbion of guests at Holkham Hall, Ncl fa .! 3 early in the ensuing month. Their Royal Highnesses "It Prince and Princess of Wales propose to stay two and during their visit there will be a grand ball. a n t 'llia Earl and Uouutes s d e G re y will rema hl " Studley Royal, Yorkshire, until a b ou t th e 20th WA, ail then go to Nocton Hall, Lincolnshire, for Christmas' d The Countess Dowager of Tankerville is exP ecle d to leave town to-day for Broadlands, on a visit to Lord sr, Lady Palmerston. Lord and Lady Robert Cecil have left town o n a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury' Hatfield House. Lord and Lady Walter Scott have left Paris I ‘ )r Rome. The Right Hon. Sir Francis and Lady Aug us ! : Baring are entertaining a succession of visitors at Stsat`°, Park, Hants. The Right Hon. Sir George and LadY Grey will join the party. The Right Hon. H. A. Herbert, M.P., iS bn s rn slightly improved in health, though the recent sYvap tO are favourable. He is still at the seat of Lord and Ls Crtmorne, in Ireland. The Late Professor Boole, F,B.S. al One - One of those men known to a l im ited circle , h A within that circle the object of an affectionate re i , spect approaching to veneration, died sudden l y ° es Friday last. The Professorship of Matheto at ` i which Dr Boole held in Queen's Cer would not of itself make the holder celebrated, see e the works which he published from time t ° tl l dealt with such abstruse questions of mathem all v e , and metaphysical inquiry that they could be aPP r e f ciated only by a few. Those who were capab le ot understanding their value held them in the big he tti estimation, and will look upon the premature dea d of their author as a grave loss to the world d, thought. The yet smaller number who wer e " 0 witted to the privilege of Professor Boole's fried ship will grieve that they have been separated free, one, intercourse with whom was a source of ies tre o f tion and delight, whcse far-reaching Pov ers . c f thought were exercised on the subtlest prob lel %, / , philosophy with a precision and energy rarely she big in any inquiry, who united to the extent of , mathematical learning a width of culture whi ch P o re d served him from the dangers of isolated stud ies ' e who threw over all the charm of an uriconse'e simplicity before which pretension was abashed' re The earlier years o f P ro f essor B o ole's; life We o spent in the neighb our h oo d o f Li nco l n , and i t 11 „ 1 8 during his resid ence a t Li nco l n t h at he fi rs t base pd known by his contributi o ns t o th e " C om b r idge!' i l % Dublin Mathematical J ourna l." Th e great abil;ls shown in those papers l e d to th e hi g h expeetatnie of his future career, and these expectation s !,; 3o further heightened by the publication of ;0 MathematicalAnalysieof Logic. Those interests s ly the progress of these studies were,therefore,eie cer r e gratified when they heard, little more than 1 0 ) 1 . 4 since, that Mr Boole, although not a member of P of University, had been chosen to be the Profess er g t Mathematics at Cork. The post was one wh ich 0 , 0 Boole was eminently fitted to adorn, and, at the erne time, it gave him better opportunities of P ursu he his favourite studies. Soon after his appointment tbe received the honorary degree of LL,D. from bed University of Dublin ; and in 1854 he pub lis st i• the first fruits of his Prof e ssori a t e in "AD e t oe gation of the Laws of Thought, on whi ch gs a founded the Mathematical Th e o r i e s of Logi c - 00 . Probabilities." The subj e ct of thi s vo l u me W aeiC l tinued in a memoir in the Transactions of the •""f Society of Edinburgh, " On the Combination e t rci/ timonies and of Judgment," and soon atter cr ° je ll when he was elected a Fellow of the Royal S ee ,, - cr i he resumed the subject cn a p !per " On the l'" h 010 of Probabilities," read before the society• he Ph i 19i1 of June, 1862, and since published LO3 losophical Transactions. In the meanwhile he ' D o his work on "Differential Equations," vati ell dg e. become a class book in the University of Cnni bri oti He was engaged in th e p re p a r a ti o n of a sec od edition of this work at the time of his deaths T , doff he siaent part of his last summer v t .c a tion in so d ransacking the treasures of the Royal Soeie t / „ p er. the British Museum, that his book might be os feet as possible. bea r°. An untimely death has put a stop to hie - a t od They were undertaken in pure love of s cieneet ico ,/ with no thought of winning honour and ree ° • Pr i g ' but their value was recognised throughout then to dom, and by the foremost mathematician s ° o ted Continent. But Professor Boole, though ade it s student of exact science, recognised the 111D Olt scientific method. Nowhere arc these liroilee the greater clearness defined than in his work 6 ' 03 0 "Laws of Thought," which has been W ee prO 4 deemed an undue extension of matlaernat ie . . a-- 01' ceases. He, himself, delighted 'Equally in - r oe matics, in poetry, and in metaphysics, and ° le a der' of his knowledge was in each of the wid est der° His acquaintance with the literature of the rtat world was singularly extensive. He Woe & ilia lover of Dante, and it may not be deeme d m ore to mention that he esteemed the" Paradie ° . than the "Inferno '—and if the width 0f hio ture was great, no one can road " s - -e f ace - - Thought" without being struck by the P r°— orit e religious spirit in which he worked at his fa cleat studies. But the quality which, perb a r h i 0 01 rate" marked him out from his fellows was an 1 arablerisep.o modesty such as he once described as P at a t O c i from a pure devotion to truth." It isas ~„earc be ars was unduly shy or retiring, but that be Atte s absolutely insensible to his claims 111 3 ° 11 to pilie e tion of others. Death has checked the dev e • g ift° f his of his character here, but the memory 0 - ° by tse b and graces will be jealously preserved evy va has left behind, and most of all by Ji W i . , se h ie children now sorrowing. The immediate ea" death was an effusion upon the lunge. '' 13LoUNT TEMPEST." B The author o h r is of the Rev. J. g• Vei- f this nova is well known as ' ° , l l:re popular men of the present day. posse ct` je d pulpit discourses attract cra,W.. to congregations, vole,—" o oratoricall p s 0 . — , , , be i g is r t e , g n ations, and his readings and lectures never fe lls .;(1 to with satisfaction by his auditors, l' ir i „ l i3 rotio now Tempest' appears in the character of a novelist. ' '',. It has is a novel that cannot fail to be saccessfo' itto, all the requisites for making it so, lt is wall , Bf ii r v ro• and carefully worked out. The principal events ti" ' t i l e bably be recognised by some as having occurrod ll i, of circle of a well known family is Lancashire, t'Aottifel;ey course, they have not baen literally adhered £O. 1 41 r ~,, ale tells his tale admirably. The story is one that jaolvP reader's attention throughout." —Observer. loo sioll OP JUSTICES' JUSTICE. the Spalding f•J''' a or last week, before the Rev Edward Moore, chalAritia93lo,lo, A. Howard, Mr Thomas Parker, farriser, 137118 P apt f t o charged Francis Revell, aged 63, with •Atearivg a ,., t oo l‘• of wheat ears from his field while the corn Was ''''„oitica Revell is a man of respectable appes :,ance, and has r' for , in the locality 32 years. Respectable witnesses can:00o. ward to say that they believed him tq be all b l ',,, eB ,rdia , " Convicted, 10 clays' inaprionwpv,. _____olo(hirevlfr -....